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Description: This small board is present in the external version of the PowerXL high density floppy drive. The drive allows read/write of normal 880Kb disks without any special software. A small program in the Startup-Sequence enables the high density read/write mode. It can also be used fine with CrossDOS/FAT95 to read/write PC-formatted HD disks. ICs are: 4x MT1259-10 (RAM buffer?) on the daughterboard GAL16V8B (programmable logic device) underneath the daughterboard TPC1010AFN (FPGA) I always found this device to be very unreliable when writing to HD disks, but have never tried it with an alternative drive. - Ali Picture Stats: Views: 1924 Filesize: 108.81kB Height: 768 Width: 1024 Posted by: InTheSand at January 26, 2007, 02:17:23 AM Image Linking Codes
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| AMC258 Posts:877 
| January 07, 2008, 03:09:40 AM I used mine (sans daughterboard) with several generic peecee drives back when I actually used it. |
| rkauer Posts:3263 | December 18, 2007, 05:08:11 AM Mine have the passtrough but not the little daughterboard. BTW: the floppy model is always a Sony MPF920E (or D). |
| Ral-Clan Posts:1979 | January 26, 2007, 03:02:44 PM I have the internal PowerXL drive, and the board is very similar to this one (minus the daughter board and passthrough connector). The connector from the board to the motherboard is a normal internal floppy ribbon cable connector on mine, of course. The internal PowerXL board also came with a Sony HD floppy drive. |
| InTheSand Posts:1766 | January 26, 2007, 09:59:38 AM Not sure of the drive model - it's a Sony drive of some sort. Will check after this weekend. A note I forgot to add above - the original Power Computing software to enable the drive doesn't work with a 68060, but thankfully a patch is available here (it's also on Aminet somewhere, but I'm not sure where!) - Ali |
| Matt_H Posts:6412 | January 26, 2007, 05:52:48 AM I have a few of these... maybe I should bring them back into service. What's the actual drive inside the unit? |